Impact of Mountain Accord Tunnels on Water Rights

A Friend of the Park Rag recently pointed out something about the Mountain Accord that we hadn’t heard discussed… the impact on water and water rights. Evidently one of the things known by those mining the Wasatch is that the mountains are very “wet.” That means that a large amount of water is stored in the …

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Vail Announces Earnings Results This Thursday

Since we are all now technically invested in the success or failure of Vail (whether you planned on or not, when you moved here 15 years ago), you may want to hear about how they are doing. Vail is hosting an earnings call (aka an investment call) on Thursday at 9:30 AM MT to fill everyone in …

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Mountain Accord Debate Live Online This Wednesday @ 5PM

Want to learn more about Mountain Accord but you haven’t been able to make the meetings? This Wednesday, four key parties will he having a discussion online about the Accord. It’s billed as a debate, so we hope some hard questions are asked and answered during the meeting. The participants include: Laynee Jones, Mountain Accord …

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Representative Kraig Powell Would Like Your Input on Mountain Accord

On Friday we had written about Utah Representative Kraig Powell’s response to a question on Mountain Accord from KPCW’s Leslie Thatcher . We had written that we felt Representative Powell should take into account his constituents’ opinions when deciding to vote for or against appropriating more money for Mountain Accord. Representative Powell was kind enough to …

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We Hope You Love Billboards

While this doesn’t immediately impact Park City (yet), this Salt Lake Tribune article about Utah Representative Mike Noel changing a Scenic Byway law is interesting. Effectively right now, billboards can’t be placed along scenic byways if the local government opposes it. This change would prevent local governments from controlling that. Therefore, land owners could put billboards …

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